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[Updated 3/2/2021 with Zoom info. PD]
Join NPSOT-Wilco’s online chapter meeting on Thursday, March 11, 2021, at 7:00 pm, when author Mary Irish will present Creating a Perennial Border with Native Plants.
You must register in advance to attend the meeting. See the instructions later in this post.
At every meeting, we give away a book — about native plants or the meeting topic — to one randomly chosen meeting attendee!
About the topic: Perennial borders are a long used design feature, but few are devoted to native plants. In building a native plant border we learned valuable lessons in how this can be achieved and the great rewards it offers a gardener.
About our speaker: Mary Irish is garden writer, lecturer and educator. She lived and worked in Arizona for 25 years. She is a native Texan who returned in 2012 and until her retirement in the spring of 2019 worked the San Antonio Botanical Garden managing the Garden’s plant sale program. She and her husband Gary live in Castroville, Texas – a historic town in the South Texas plains.
She is the author with Gary Irish of Agaves, Yuccas and Related Plants (Timber Press, 2000), Gardening in the Desert (University of Arizona Press, 2000), Arizona Gardener’s Guide (Cool Springs Press, 2003), Month by Month Gardening in the Desert Southwest (Cool Springs Press, 2003) with a revised edition entitled Gardening in the Desert of Arizona in 2008, Perennials for the Southwest, (Timber Press, 2006), Trees and Shrubs for the Southwest (Timber Press, 2008), A Place All Our Own (University of Arizona Press, 2012), Texas Getting Started Garden Guide (Cool Springs Press, 2013) and with Judith Phillips, Arizona-New Mexico Getting Started Garden Guide (Cool Springs Press, 2014) and Gardening on the Dry Side, Texas A&M Press.
Irish has worked as a consultant on projects for the Sunnyland Administrative Center, Sunnyland Center and Gardens in Rancho Mirage, California, Myriad Botanical Garden in Oklahoma City, downtown plantings for the City of Scottsdale, the Xeriscape Demonstration Garden in Glendale, Arizona, as well for numerous homeowner associations and private gardens.
Irish teaches classes regularly on the use and cultivation of agaves and succulents, woody plants, and low water use perennials. Her plant interests range widely with agaves and their relatives, bulbs and drought hardy perennials at the top of the list.
She served as the Director of Public Horticulture at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix for 11 years ending in 1999. She has served on the Board of the Arizona Nursery Association for 10 years, Native Seeds/SEARCH for 3 years and Boyce Thompson Arboretum for 9 years, 6 as the Chair.
She has a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and M.S. in Geography from Texas A&M University.
How to attend: You must register in advance to attend the meeting. Register at the link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/2116147254004/WN_5gjv_wHRS7SN3Mg7YpdWxw
NPSOT-Williamson County meetings are free and open to the public. In this time of public health risk, our in-person meetings and field trips are canceled until further notice.
Check our blog announcements, calendar and Facebook for developing plans for virtual meetings and virtual field trips.
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